December 11
Rev 2:18-3:6
“To the angel of the assembly in
Thyatira write:
“The Son of God, who has his eyes like a flame of fire, and his feet are
like burnished brass, says these things:
“I know your works, your love, faith, service, patient endurance, and that
your last works are more than the first. But I have this against you, that
you tolerate your woman, Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess. She
teaches and seduces my servants to commit sexual immorality, and to eat
things sacrificed to idols. I gave her time to repent, but she refuses to
repent of her sexual immorality. Behold, I will throw her into a bed, and
those who commit adultery with her into great oppression, unless they repent
of her works. I will kill her children with Death, and all the assemblies
will know that I am he who searches the minds and hearts. I will give to
each one of you according to your deeds. But to you I say, to the rest who
are in Thyatira, as many as don’t have this teaching, who don’t know what
some call ‘the deep things of Satan,’ to you I say, I am not putting any
other burden on you. Nevertheless, hold that which you have firmly until I
come. He who overcomes, and he who keeps my works to the end, to him I will
give authority over the nations. He will rule them with a rod of iron,
shattering them like clay pots; as I also have received of my Father: and I
will give him the morning star. He who has an ear, let him hear what the
Spirit says to the assemblies.
“And to the angel of the assembly in Sardis write:
“He who has the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars says these things:
“I know your works, that you have a reputation of being alive, but you are
dead. Wake up, and keep the things that remain, which you were about to
throw away, for I have found no works of yours perfected before my God.
Remember therefore how you have received and heard. Keep it, and repent. If
therefore you won’t watch, I will come as a thief, and you won’t know what
hour I will come upon you. Nevertheless you have a few names in Sardis that
did not defile their garments. They will walk with me in white, for they are
worthy. He who overcomes will be arrayed in white garments, and I will in no
way blot his name out of the book of life, and I will confess his name
before my Father, and before his angels. He who has an ear, let him hear
what the Spirit says to the assemblies.
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